230 KB46 KB201120252022Abhayawansa, Kapilaštevilka:105/106letnik:27str. 21-43DOI:10.35469/poligrafi.2022.334ISSN:1318-8828COBISSID_HOST:139634691URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-TKMTUQ3MenDruštvo za primerjalno religiologijoZnanstveno-raziskovalno središče KoperPoligrafiBuddhismbudizemChinese religionkitajska religijamanualsPa?i Canonpalijski kanonpriročnikiteravadski budizemTheravada BuddhismTheravada Buddhism| the Sri Lankan contribution to its progress|Sri Lanka is the only country that has seen Theravada Buddhism established, preserved, and continue to exist up to the present since the missions to other co-untries from its birth in India. It is a historical fact that after the Third Buddhist Council, missionaries were dispatched to nine countries for the propagation of Theravada Buddhism. There is no historical evidence to confirm that any of the nine countries except Sri Lanka was able to preserve Theravada Buddhism and keep it in its original form throughout the course of time. On the other hand, Sri Lanka secures the honour and credit to have been the centre of Theravada Budd-hism for a considerable time.The present paper deals with the way Sri Lanka contributed immensely to the establishment, protection, and flourishing of Theravada Buddhism as a unique tradition of Buddhist thought. In this respect, our attention is focused mainly on the exegetical literature of the Theravada tradition which will shed much li-ght on both the theoretical and practical aspects of the tradition. The Sri Lankan Mahavihara community of monks was responsible for providing a vast exegetical literature which consists of commentaries, sub-commentaries, sub-sub-commen-taries, and the compendiums based on the Theravada canon brought to Sri Lanka. The writing down of the Theravada Pa?i canon in Sri Lanka for the first time also marks a unique event in the history of Buddhism. The contribution made by Sri Lanka to preserve the Pa?i canon by this means was highly instrumental in preser-ving it in its original form. Further, Sri Lanka was a source of inspiration to other Theravada Buddhist countries to revitalize their Buddhism in accordance with the more orthodox form of TheravadaŠrilanka je edina država, v kateri se je teravadski budizem, potem ko se je po začetku v Indiji začel z misijami širiti v tujino, uveljavil in ohranil do danes. Po Tretjem budističnem koncilu so bili misijonarji poslani v devet držav, kjer naj bi širili teravadski budizem, kar je zgodovinsko dejstvo. Zgodovinskih dokazov, ki bi potrjevali, da je ta veja budizma še kje drugje kot na Šrilanki preživela skozi stoletja in se ohranila v svoji izvirni obliki, pa ni. Šrilanka si lahko šteje v čast, obenem pa pripiše tudi vse zasluge, da je tako dolgo središče teravadskega budizma.Pričujoči članek obravnava izjemni prispevek Šrilanke, da se je teravadski budi-zem kot edinstvena tradicija budistične filozofije uveljavil, ohranil in razcvetel. V tem pogledu je avtorjeva pozornost usmerjena predvsem na eksegetsko gradivo teravadske tradicije, ki podrobneje osvetli tako njene teoretične kot praktične vidike. Šrilanška skupnost menihov vélikega budističnega samostana (mahavihare) je bila zadolžena za pripravo obsežne eksegetske literature, ki vključuje komentarje, ko-mentarje komentarjev, komentarje komentarjev komentarjev in priročnike, teme-lječe na teravadskem kanonu, ki je bil prinesen na Šrilanko. Prvi zapis teravadskega pa?ijskega kanona na Šrilanki je bil edinstven dogodek za zgodovino budizma, s katerim je Šrilanka ključno prispevala k ohranitvi kanona v izvirni obliki. Šrilanka je poleg tega navdihnila tudi druge dežele, v katerih je bil nekoč razširjen teravadski budizem, da so svojo obliko budizma poživile v duhu bolj tradicionalne teravadeTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaZnanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper